Now, rising to the challenge, an Arizona State University team of researchers has built a powerful new AI tool, called Ark +, ...

New drugs that target "zombie" tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of ...

Objectives Identify barriers and facilitators to integrating community tuberculosis screening with mobile X-ray units into a health system. Methods Reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and ...

Deep learning computer-aided detection (CAD) system for diagnosing abnormal findings related to Tuberculosis (TB) disease on chest X-ray images (CXRs) is growing in research. However, the deep ...

Skin or blood tests will likely be positive and radiography (e.g., chest X-ray or CT scan) will be abnormal. Who is most at risk for contracting TB? Bhavaraju: Anyone exposed to a person with TB can ...

Our primary motivator is the need for screening HIV+ populations in resource-constrained regions for exposure to Tuberculosis, using posteroanterior chest radiographs (CXRs). The proposed method is ...

AI-powered chest X-ray analysis improves tuberculosis detection AI-based diagnostic tools, particularly deep learning models like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have demonstrated remarkable ...

Active TB disease is when a person has a positive TB test and signs or symptoms of the disease, such as a cough, night sweats, weight loss, and abnormal chest X-ray.

Active TB disease is when a person has a positive TB test and signs or symptoms of the disease, such as a cough, night sweats, weight loss and abnormal chest X-ray. Active TB can spread between ...

THE great value of x-ray examination of the chest in tuberculosis case-finding programs is beyond a doubt. Bloch and his associates 1 in 1938 stated the strong position of roentgenology: "Failure ...

In addition to tuberculosis, heart disease and cancer, innumerable abnormal chest conditions were discovered as a result of the taking of more than 500,000 70-mm. x-ray films and more than 9000 ...